The In Codice Ratio project uses artificial intelligence and optical character recognition software to mine the Vatican Secret Archives and make its documents available...The AtlanticFrom ACM TechNews | May 2, 2018

For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...The AtlanticFrom ACM News | November 8, 2017

Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...The AtlanticFrom ACM Careers | September 25, 2017

The former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...The AtlanticFrom ACM News | July 5, 2017

Researchers at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab have found that bots they were training to negotiate with each other began conversing in a non-human...The AtlanticFrom ACM TechNews | June 23, 2017

The world we experience is not the real world. It's a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world...The AtlanticFrom ACM News | June 21, 2017

The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...The AtlanticFrom ACM Careers | May 23, 2017

Remember when Luke's running the trench in the Death Star, and he's about to fire his fateful shot, and at the last minute he decides to turn off the targeting...The AtlanticFrom ACM News | April 13, 2017

Thomas Jefferson is known for a lot of things—writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, owning hundreds of slaves despite believing...The AtlanticFrom ACM News | April 3, 2017